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Originally Posted by mg1942
It is about another form of tax being pushed as an environmental bill. This bill is based on junk partisan political backed science. If it indeed was for helping the environment (if it needs help) and the true science actually supported the goals, many would be for it as opposed. The only thing this bill does is give the federal government more power over the states by regulation and the people by taxation.
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No, it's a completely seperate issue. It has absolutely nothing to do with the federal cap and trade bill other than timing. If you had read
the original article cited in the one you linked to, you'd see that the bill bars the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, a state agency, from enacting new rules about climate change, specificly relating to new emmissions standards for cars they decided on last year.
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The Fedzilla only has the authority to regulate interstate commerce, not all commerce. Intrastate commerce is for each individual State to regulate, so yes, this could end up being a States rights issue.
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Which would certainly apply, if this bill in question applied to anything other than Arizona's own environmental regulations. National environmental regulations are certainly interstate not intrastate. My point there was, if the article you linked to was correct, it'd be a case of a state trying to take a power specificly granted to the federal government. However, it isn't, so this has nothing to do with state's rights at all. It's about a state legislature passing legislation that effects a state agency. States rights in no way comes into play here.